Blogs have editorial standards depending on the expertise and capacity of
the blogger. In this example, Michael Barone, the editor of the Almanac of
American Politics for 30 years has a blog [
].
Editors should be careful in using blogs as in any source as to reliability
of the blogger and to make sure we are quoting both sides of the story. In
this case, having blogs as one of our sole sources is a mistake especially
when there is a clear partisan bias to the blogs selected.
The same can be said about the "mainstream media". The New York Times has
gotten things wrong such as Jayson Blair. So does the BBC - its coverage of
the Iraq War was appalling and it was the worst offender in highly
exaggerated coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In short, we should be careful in
our use of sources in whatever form they take.
The problem with these articles in my view is that they are not NPOV and
that they do not use the most reliable sources available.
Regards
Keith
Keith
User:Capitalistroadster
On 10/22/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com>
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JAY JG wrote:
>> From: Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com>
>>
>> Delirium wrote:
>> > Alphax wrote:
>> >
>> >> What about if the author has blogged about (some current event)
that
>> >> they witnessed or attended?
>> >>
>> >>
>> > That still seems like a shaky source. That's basically saying,
"some
>> > guy on the internet claims he saw
this happen". If I "blogged"
about
>> > witnessing an event on my Wikipedia
User page, could we cite that
as
a
> > source?
> >
>
> What's the difference between a blog and any other page on the
internet?
>
>
> Blogs have no editorial standards, no way of verifying that anything
on
them is
correct, true, relevant, notable, reliable, sane. Blogs are
only good as sources for articles about those specific blogs.
You still haven't answered my question: what's the difference between a
blog and ANY OTHER WEBSITE?
There's little difference between a blog and any other *personal* website.
There is a huge difference between a blog and the website of a respected
news source (e.g. New York Times, BBC), or the site of a publically traded
corporation, or that of a major non-profit organization, or of an
encyclopedia, or a government website, or a UN website, or etc.
All websites are not created equal.
Jay.
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